Overview of Mail-Art projects provided by the 99 authors of this blog which are all active in Mail-Art. If you want to enter information as well. Send an e-mail to info@iuoma.org The blog can contain all kind of projects the group wants to share. There is also a blog for a general Mail-Art Discussion. All mail-art projects published here are automatically archived in a large database for historical archiving.

We furthermore opened the Mail Art exhibition "20 years since the Fall of the Wall - Mail Art was underground but what about today?" at Prenzlauer Berg-Museum in Berlin. More information at:http://mailartists.wordpress.com/news/

Theme: send your mail art on the famous politician Otto von Bismarck.Technique/Size: freeExhibition: In 2011, there will be a Mail Art Exhibition in Bad Kissingen, Museum Obere Saline - Bismarck Museum (Germany).Documentation: A Press release of the event will follow the show.

It's Only Mail Art vi invita a partecipare al nuovo progetto 2010It’s Only Mail Art invites you to partecipate in the new project 2010

No Commercial Potential

Il produrre arte che risponda esclusivamente alle proprie esigenze creative senza scendere a compromessi per renderla bene di consumoThe production of an art that fits exclusively one’s own creative needs without stooping to compromises to make it a consumer good

22 November 2009

The theme, "Dancing Through Life," can be interpreted literally or figuratively. All submitted work will be exhibited. Documentation will be mailed to all who submit. No work will be returned. All submissions will become property of StudioJeff. All mail art submitted will be exhibited in my ballroom dance studio for six weeks around March 20th which is the local art crawl. Nearly 300 people pass through my studio on that evening when my studio becomes an art gallery so submitted art will have a significant viewing. Submissions may be exhibited at other dance studios in Minnesota or elsewhere.

20 November 2009

llustrate one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World :Pyramid, Hanging gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, lighthouse of Alexandria...or any others wonders of the medieval or modern world : Mont Saint Michel, Taj Mahal, Leaning tower of Pisa, Channel Tunnel, Empire State building, Millau Viaduct etc...

Any theme is welcome except erotica art or violent art or hate mail will not be shown. Please include your email address so a link with your art on this blog can be sent to you. Brick and mortar show to be announced for late spring 2010

The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life
that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life
that is rocked in the ocean-cradle
of birth and of death,
in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious
by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages
dancing in my blood this moment.Use of Garry Schyman's music for Praan – originally written for Where The Hell Is Matt? – has been generously granted by the composer.Lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream Of Life" from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.Music Credits: Music By Garry Schyman. Drums and Engineering Dan Blessinger. Vocals Palbasha Siddique. Guitars and bass Kevin Dukes. Concertmaster Belinda Broughton. Orchestral contractor Ross DeRoche (DeRoche Music Inc.). Vocal Contractor Melissa Nixon.

8 November 2009

I'm an Australian artist working on this artwork which is a bit like an inversion of Mail Art, as it is ME who sends postcards to the willing participants.

The work attempts to join people all over the place in an 'invisible network', or an exhibition, only each person receives one artwork in their mail box.It is also an attempt to connect in a non-electronic fashion.Because snail mail RULZ!:)

Anyway, if anyone wants to participate, and get an arty postcard from Down Under, please email me your address to: aska.doll@gmail.com

4 November 2009

Send us your thoughts, a small drawing, Polaroid, or photograph of how you might interpret Buy Art. Not Underwear.and we will start posting them in the gallery.Buy Art. Not Underwear.The artists at Ice Cube Gallery, a brand new artists cooperative in Denver, Colorado invite you to comment on the commercial aspect of art-making.

What are the things that bind us together as artists? We disagree on everything. Aesthetics, color, line, value. What is art? What isn’t art? What is good bad ugly? One thing that united this group of artists as we started this cooperative, Ice Cube Gallery, was our desire to make it financially feasible to have this place to create, push, put out installations that get us out of our normal comfort zones.

Oscar Wilde said that when bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. Perhaps this may be true for the fact that most artists are always thinking about how to make the money to pay for the space and materials to make the art.

Andy Warhol said that:

Making money is artand working is artand good businessis the best art.

I am not really sure that this is true but, he definitely reflected modern and contemporary reality. It seems as though the only way to make art that gets noticed is to play by the rules of the market.

As we were gearing up for our first group show we noticed this little tidbit in the New York Times that says- According to some economists, rising underwear sales are an indicator of easing recession.

A few of us working on getting the cooperative off the ground started to imagine ourselves in a new piece of art instead of new underwear. Some people want to Photoshop their head onto someone else’s body while holding up their art. Kathy Knaus and I started to think about creating art with our body parts that might wear underwear.

Send us a small drawing, Polaroid, or photograph of how you might interpret Buy Art. Not Underwear. -and we will start posting them in the gallery. No Deadline. We will keep posting them in the gallery as they come in.

Okay- Mail art tries to circumvent the whole commercial aspect but, as usual mail art is now part of the gallery experiece.